Example sentences of "he himself [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been reminded that the bookies ' smoke signals usually signify a lot more than just grandiose waves of their Havana cigars , Ramsden then revealed that he himself might have been inadvertantly responsible for the Travelling Light rumour . |
| 2 | Half-jokingly , but with a certain edge , Moran said that Great Meadow was so deserted that he himself might have to remove himself before long to her house . |
| 3 | He was also tired and cold , and in between worrying that Prince Richard was lying at the bottom of the lake with a broken neck had been forced to entertain the idea that he himself might be less fit than he should be . |
| 4 | Another thing is that he himself might not be able to afford to send her the money , especially as he has a young family . ’ |
| 5 | Supposing , however , that those answers are correct , would we not allow that he knows them , even though he himself might not make that claim ? |
| 6 | In the life he himself might well have had , she would have been an obvious and natural choice . |
| 7 | Ellwood shrugged , grinning , as if he himself might fill the role . |
| 8 | When his daughter Nannette inverted that action to make her down-striking action , she included the check , completing her father 's piano action as he himself might have done had he seen Gottfried Silbermann 's pianos , or indeed those of Cristofori , rather than those of Johann Heinrich Silbermann . |
| 9 | So too he asks that he himself may be obedient to the powers which are ordained and be delivered from ‘ private interpretation , unhealthy enquiries , and innovation in things sacred ’ . |
| 10 | DAAN VAN DER MEULEN is best known in English-speaking circles as the first reliable explorer of the Wadi Hadhramaut in South Africa , a little-known , wild region , riven by tribal feuds , hardly explored , and fraught with danger for the outsider ; though he himself would probably have liked to be remembered equally for his services in the Dutch colonial administration in Sumatra . |
| 11 | He himself would have been desperately pushed if he had had to manage on two-thirds of his salary until Christmas every year . |
| 12 | They certainly bore no relationship to the eminently satisfactory compensation and pension which he himself would receive . |
| 13 | But his father decided that he himself would marry a third wife , and that his son could wait another year or two . |
| 14 | It is not what he himself would have wanted . |
| 15 | The press would have had a field day , and what Frank did n't realize is that he himself would have been a laughing stock . |
| 16 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 17 | For morals we wait until the next chapter but there will be the same dependence on spontaneity whenever I choose on behalf of someone else what I think he himself would want in his own interests . |
| 18 | He was curious to see the minister , although he made Willie Hamilton come with him up to the gallery , so that he himself would not be noted by the dragon of a wife or her daughter . |
| 19 | He himself would never marry another woman ; there could be no one else like her , no one in all the world . |
| 20 | Murray decided that he himself would go after the usurper , as was suitable , the lawful Regent after the false king , with perhaps one thousand hard-riding Border mosstroopers who knew the country , whilst the rest of the Scots army went on down Annandale after the main enemy force . |
| 21 | Edward Plantagenet of England , disgusted at his minion Balliol 's miserable failure at Annan , had announced that he himself would now take over the subjugation of Scotland , despite the Treaty of Northampton , and was presently assembling a great army to bring north with him . |
| 22 | If fact , if it had n't been for Finch 's increasing drinking problem , he himself would never have behaved on the set in anything other than a professional way . |
| 23 | He knew now that he himself would never have made a flyer . |
| 24 | He himself would probably have claimed that his greatest achievement was to be able to predict accurately where and when a particular cuckoo would lay its eggs . |
| 25 | He himself would visit Balbinder at his present school . |
| 26 | In 1534 , according to a report from John Hussey to Lord Lisle , Henry VIII announced that if offices were being sold , as they daily were , he himself would have the advantage from it . |
| 27 | Soon their own children would be born and he himself would become superfluous , an old man sitting in the chimney corner whom no one thought it worth their while to consult . |
| 28 | All eyes turned towards Rayne , who smiled apologetically and said , yes , that he had asked Vokins to bid on his behalf as he himself would be conducting the auction and it would clearly be difficult for him to put in bids and be auctioneer at the same time . |
| 29 | But he could not have guessed that , almost fifty years later , Eliot would be loaded with honours and with happiness while he himself would have retreated into a silence of guilt and despair . |
| 30 | Less than one month after she and David were married , and knowing that he himself would never have the courage to ask , Beth had gone to Luther Reynolds with a certain proposition . |